Notable Online: 10/25–10/31
Literary events taking place virtually this week!
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Posts Tagged: David Biespiel
The Joy of Play: Every Writer Has a Thousand Faces (10th Anniversary Ed.) by David Biespiel
Biespiel offers a number of best practices—not just for writing poems, but for living a creative life.
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Notable Portland: 1/9–1/15
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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A Year in Rumpus Book Reviews
A look back at the books we’ve reviewed in 2019!
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Notable Portland: 10/3–10/9
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 5/9–5/15
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 4/11–4/17
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Notable Portland: 4/4–4/10
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: W. S. Merwin: An Appreciation
The psyche is haunted by its own swollen intimacies, Merwin’s poems remind us.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Whitman Notebook: Which Is Ahead
Walt Whitman says that to be an American is to be a poet.
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Notable Portland: 2/14–2/20
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Both/And: Republic Café by David Biespiel
How is one to make sense of making catastrophe and making love in the same moment?
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What to Read When 2019 Is Just Around the Corner
A list of books releasing in the first half of 2019 that we can’t wait to read!
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What to Read When: Rumpus Staff Favorites 2018
The Rumpus editorial staff selects our favorite pieces from 2018!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Whitman Notebook: From Yourself
To write is not to dream.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: Whitman Notebook: Summer Grass
Whatever is undiscovered in “Song of Myself” is in the soil.
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Notable Portland: 9/13–9/19
Literary events in and around Portland this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around Chicago this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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A New Understanding of Experience: David Biespiel’s The Education of a Young Poet
This book will make you appreciate poetry more. And if you’re a poet, it will make you proud to be one.
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Chewing Rocks: A Conversation with David Biespiel
David Biespiel discusses his new book, The Education of a Young Poet, being comfortable in uncertainty, and extending moments in writing.
...moreNotable Portland: 10/12–10/18
Literary events and readings in and around Portland this week!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 14): “Some Grass Along a Ditch Bank”
…being on the edge of the natural world is like being on the edge of time.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 13): “Letter to Simic from Boulder”
“Wherever you are on earth, you are safe,” writes Richard Hugo. Really?
...moreNotable Portland: 5/18–5/24
Thursday 5/18: Sung Yim and Kate Jayroe read from their latest work. Daedalus Books, 7 p.m., free. The Comma Reading Series presents Penelope Scambly Schott and Marjorie Sandor as they read from their latest work. Broadway Books, 7 p.m., free.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 12): “Shine, Perishing Republic”
Vive le resistance déjà vu, you say? Are we only a nation that forgets, a United States of Obliviousness?
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 10): “The Gods”
Poetic contemplation typically is a means to container experience, like a still life.
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 9): “The City Limits”
[A] nation’s poetry degenerates if it does not embody the language of what is mysterious…
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: 21 Poems That Shaped America (Pt. 8): “Song of the Gourd”
“Song of the Gourd” is like an eye roll at this sort of gusto about leaving the Southland.
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